A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense. – Thomas Harrison
No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern. – Thomas Harrison

A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense. – Thomas Harrison
No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern. – Thomas Harrison
As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me; but I meane not they should cover or hide me… – Michel de Montaigne, “Of Phisiognomy,” translated by John Florio; commonly moder